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Pre-Season Rankings

For season 5.0, Battlebots changed the rules. Rather than determine which bots would skip the prelimaries based on how many wins they had total (as had been done in previous seasons), Battlebots based it on "win percentage" from the three previous seasons (2.0, 3.0, and 4.0). This formula was such that prelimaries matches were worth half as much as "final" matches, and that all bots were considered to have the entered the previous three tourneys, whether or not they actually did.

The top 24 seeds were given byes; in case any of them dropped out, the next highest ranked bot on the list was supposed to take their place.

For the most part, the 8 highest ranked bots would have their first match againist a bot from the prelimaries, while the other 16 would fight each other based on their proxmity from the 16th/17th seed (9th seeded would fight the 24th seed, 16th would fight the 17th, etc.)